On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:00:36PM -0400, Viola Zoltán wrote: > Dear Ken, I need the new distro from you suggestion ONLY, JUST for the > building of LFS, no for other works/jobs! No problem, if it not have > wifi-possibility or others. I saved the full LFS and BLFS books to my > new-used partition, I will work from its. And I was downloaded all needed > packages, of course. I will install the new host distro, and build LFS. If > I would like work/play any other, then reboot to my Sabayon. Therefore, I > no need full-featured desktop environment. Just a lightweight WM with a > browser to read the LFS book, mc (not musthaved, but I like it) and nothing > else, just I should can build my LFS. I need the host distro just > temporarily, ad interim. Which distro you do use nowadays for build you LFS > system?
To answer that last question - LFS. I have used debian-ppc and then ubuntu for my non x86 boxes, but the last x86 distro I used was probably mandrake-7.2. Is sabayon the gentoo-based hardened distro you were using ? Or did you actually install gentoo ? > > Or, it is would be much easyer to my, that if you have a full temporary > system as written in the LFS book, - finished to the 5.35 chapter - then > you pack it to a tar.bz2 file, and send me its download link. I download > it, unpack it to my partition, change ownership, and begin at this chapter > I continue the building of my own LFS system, with chroot and others. This > is a little bit would be alike to the Gentoo, from stage3, I think. > > Zoli Four reasons why I can't do that : 1. I don't have such a tarball. 2. Size - I don't have anywhere to upload large files. 3. Licensing - you would need my buildscripts, and I would also have to offer to supply you with the source tarballs for a reasonable time, at least for the GPL'd packages. 4. I'm normally building on x86_64. You are building i686. At this point, perhaps I should mention that we really dislike top posting. You mentioned that you didn't like ubuntu : if you have a fairly-recent ubuntu CD, that should be good enough : install it and then boot ubuntu, install a minimal desktop instead of the bloated 'buntu desktop (I prefer icewm, but xfce is nearly as useful), your mc, and then whatever it needs for LFS - build-essentials, and replacing the dash symlink is my guess. Check the host system requirements in the book. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
